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I have to account for offroading animals while I drive/bike because deer love to sit on the edge of a road, and inexplicably leap in front of me at the last sec
by stevenwoo 9y ago
I have to account for offroading animals while I drive/bike because deer love to sit on the edge of a road, and inexplicably leap in front of me at the last second or if I see some crossing the road ahead, know I have to slow down just in case it has some deer in the pack behind it that are following or the deer changes its mind because it doesn't want me to be in between it and it's herd to go back where they came from. This can involve scaling what appears to be a ten foot almost vertical wall of rock. Fawns will often wait until you get right next to them before moving because their defense mechanism is sitting still and hoping to not get noticed. So automated cars need to know what deer look like and how they behave since they are so common. Very occassionally I've had to avoid mountain lions and bobcats but based on road kill I've seen most people just drive over bobcats.